Harvard:Biophysics 101/2007/02/13

New assignment

• We will formalize this assignment in class on Thursday, but here is a general outline for those who wish to get started before then.
• You will develop a script that can compare one or more input sequences to a reference sequence and report any interesting difference between the two.
  • It will be up to you (collectively) to come up with what is "interesting". Post your ideas to the discussion tab for this page.
• Use ApoE as your reference gene for this exercise.
• Check the BioPython documentation for dealing with alignments
• Rather than connecting to GenBank and downloading your reference sequence each time, try using some file I/O to save a local copy of sequence data that you need to reuse.